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Intel Previews Potential Replacement for Flash Memory
GeeksAreSexy writes "Eweek has an article up about the invention of a new kind of nonvolatile memory technology that could one day replace traditional flash memory. Unlike traditional flash memory, chips using this new technology will be able to execute code with performance, and sustain millions of read/write cycles without dying." From the article: "This is a case in which 'Necessity is the mother of invention' is very true. We were forced to look for something else, completely different. That's why we decided to invest in PCM ... There are definitely limits to what you can do with our current flash methodology. There needs to be a complete quantum leap somewhere along the line to push everything forward. We believe PCM are going to be that quantum leap."
I was wicked today at the airport
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I thought that was called SVG
First came Jave applets and they were lacking and not supported correcty on all browsers.
Next came ActiveX and it was windows only and had huge security holes (we still feel today).
Next came Flash and it was simple enough that it started to catch on, but what kept it from really getting huge was that the developer kits are expensive and you really need to be in a company that can afford the kit (this keeps all the home grown web developers out of the mix).
Now there is AJAX which promises goodness but there is a huge issue with number of calls to the originating server and latency. Also a lot of server software is written in not so fast languages like perl, ruby, python and even java, while fine with standard web apps, are far from optimal for a complex AJAX app (this will only improve in time).
And here we have yet another clone to Flash and the only way it can wedge itself into the web world is to offer developer kits for free and charge for license to use it in production or commercial gain. If they are smart they will have a back end sever that can be quickly queried for data and charge for the OS/server software. In the early 90s microsoft offered free OS SDK for Windows 3.0 while OS/2 SDK was not, since I learned a lot of the early SDK stuff while in school I couldn't afford the OS/2 dev kit even though they had a better OS, so I learned Win16 SDK and when apps needed to be developed I used what I knew (by then it was Win32, MFC, ATL, etc). Free SDK and developer support is the key to winning over Flash, I think.
This is so offtopic it's not even funny. Have you ever even considered RTFB? (blurb)
Global warming is a cube.
In my Calc II class in college we had a couple TA's. One was there to help students and the other was there to grade papers. They butted heads a lot becuase the TA that helped the students did it in a way that pissed off the grader (didn't show enough work or something like that on the homework). Well, I'd frequently get knocked off a few points because I didn't show a step here and there (usually nitpicky stuff like simplification). Which pissed me off to no end when it would effect my grade. The prof told me to take it up with the TA. Who couldn't care less, and refused to re-issue grades.
At the end of the class my comment on the review sheet for the TA's was as follows:
"The combined absolute value of the TA's was less than epsilon." Followed by the formula |TA1 + TA2| E (or something to that effect. I was pissed about my grade. Later I found out this prof used the same TA for all her grading and I had to rearrange my schedule so I wouldn't get that TA again.
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